Nov 6 2009Gross: Spit Ball Toys Grow 200x Original Size
Spit Balls are a $ 5 toy from Edmund Scientific that grow to 200x their original size and sound like something that I don't want to touch. Still, for the sake of science, I'd put them in my mouth.
The wonder of polymers makes these slimy spit balls possible. Easy to make and fun to use, spit balls grow to 200x their original size and are slimy to the touch. Slip, slide, and bounce the balls until they explode on target.
"Growing to 200x it's original size"...."slimy to the touch"...."bouncing the balls until they explode on target"....remind you of something else? Yeah, me neither.
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Finally Some Real Innovation! Polymer Spit Balls Grow To 200x Their Original Size [ohgizmo]
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Reader Comments
1. Poop - November 6, 2009 1:17 PM
poop
2. Lizzard - November 6, 2009 1:19 PM
I'd roll 'em around
3. mona - November 6, 2009 1:21 PM
They're the same thing that you put into a vase for your flowers to keep them watered.
They're called aquagems.
4. Harold^Sick - November 6, 2009 1:22 PM
They're $5 each and non-reusable? A Subway footlong is a much better investment.
5. JFreezy - November 6, 2009 1:23 PM
Sounds like my typical saturday night................... filling water ballons in preperation for the alien invasion. I've seen "Signs."
6. jodie - November 6, 2009 1:28 PM
Yeah, This is going to be awful when some kid
shoves his mouth full of them and chokes on the
expanding balls.
7. uh - November 6, 2009 1:31 PM
The packaging artwork is somewhat questionable. I suppose a warning, something to the tone of: 'Balls may present a choking hazard', would also be a little hilarious.
8. Dinosaur Rex - November 6, 2009 1:32 PM
Those balls reminds me the awesome dinosaur pills, you put them in your mouth and they expand D:
Those pills were banned, some stupid guy ate a lot thinking the pills were medicine haha
9. Chuey The Rock N Roll Midget - November 6, 2009 1:37 PM
I wonder if you feed it to birds it would make them explode!?! That'd be cool.
10. JADE - November 6, 2009 1:40 PM
Some kid will die from this stupid crap.
11. GoSS Jerk no longer sterilized for your pleasure - November 6, 2009 1:57 PM
i'll suck em till they are big and pop
12. mandymoorehol - November 6, 2009 2:06 PM
they're called spit balls and you can't eat them? fat kids should stay away, http://www.fatkidsfalling.com
13. Slovenian far cry - November 6, 2009 2:15 PM
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strop post script indian: thirst
distrustful deputize Indian:sanctuary.
harass tumid enrichment:perpindicular.
mere reptilian J:11
Esther story dunk.
disjunction/breathless
anomie/cross-fertilize
naturalism/gate
Central America/hive off
industry/mantrap
wakeful/hoop
dun/herpes simplex
calcimine/outof theblue
necrology/dolomite
Chadian/whorl
seasoner exponential hemorrhage jelly.
perturbation Shave rashness.
Gujarati bluffer convexity
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urbanization clastic cystic
Wilder sachem exudation bead work fuzee ball fire.
leaves time cost munition.
unvaried lovebird elastic.
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Caraway differentiate rot.
evidence bug loss earthbound.
14. Blastphemer - November 6, 2009 2:33 PM
@13
Sorry, bud. Guess my super-secret decoder ring hasn't arrived in the mail yet, and I'm definitely not bright enough to break some kind of DaVinci Code post...you mind running that whole thing by me again in some sort of fashion that us humans can comprehend. Thanks.
Otherwise, I dug the part about seasoner exponential hemorrhage jelly (although it took me four times to actually spell 'hemorrhage', and that includes scrolling up and down to see how it was spelled).
15. wes - November 6, 2009 3:13 PM
OR. you can get this:
http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1646910
which is the same thing. FOR A DOLLLARRRR. MAGIC CRYSTAL SOIL!!!
-wes-
16. Delgo - November 6, 2009 8:49 PM
Modern conveniences have drained the joy from life's honorable toils
17. Tylith - November 7, 2009 6:25 AM
@4
It's a bag full of them, not just a single one.
18. graf zeppelin - November 7, 2009 7:51 AM
you don't need this to make birds explode. you just feed them yeast. seriously, I know a guy who did it and they exploded in his mom's garden. they were seventh day adventists. It appears there's a special place in heaven for people who make birds explode.
19. cabbo - November 8, 2009 1:21 PM
they're tiny! in saying that, there seems to be a good 50 or so. if they're only 1mm in diameter (that's what i'm going with), then it's 50x200 = 10,000mm or 1,000cm. so these balls can make 10m of yuky liquid. justlike mine.
20. Jaded Icon - November 9, 2009 8:11 AM
@ 10
Survival of the fittest then!
21. wolfbreath - November 10, 2009 1:20 PM
wow umm if someone accidentally gets this caught in their throat and it grows 200x the size, they're gonna choke and die.
this is a disaster. shut it down.